Posted on 08/07/2006 1:22:25 PM PDT by presidio9
It is hard to imagine two politicians less similar than Steve Laffey and the man whose job he’s trying to take, Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. Laffey and Chafee both carry the Republican label. The similarity ends there.
Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, R.I., and the challenger in the Sept. 12 Republican primary, is a hyperkinetic, fast-talking son of the working class.
“My father was a tool maker, he never went to college. I’m the only Laffey in the history of Laffeys who ever went to college,” he said. He graduated from Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School, before launching a career which led to serving as president of the Morgan Keegan investment firm in Memphis.
“I grew up with no money. I watched my dad lose his job in the 1970s when foreign imports were taking jobs away,” Laffey said.
Growing up in Cranston, when the family would run short of money, his mother, a nurse who worked the late shift, would feed the kids on mayonnaise and ketchup sandwiches on day-old white bread.
Laffey is a Reagan-loving populist, but also idolizes Bobby Kennedy for his combativeness –- he cites the moment he saw film footage of Kennedy interrogating Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa before a Senate investigating committee.
Last Saturday Laffey went out for a hot day of sprinting from one house to another along Flint Corn Road and Dorothy Avenue in suburban Portsmouth, R.I.
Laffey’s fired-up advance team included pals such as Eddie Curran, his former junior high school classmate. “He’s knocked on 30,000 doors,” Laffey said.
Also fanning out to drum up support for Laffey were his wife Kelly and four of his five children.
Laffey tends towards the fleshy and after 20 minutes of campaigning, his shirt was drenched in sweat.
If perspiration were
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Chafee is endorsed by by the Log Cabin Republicans
The Log Cabin Republicans are just as much a part of the Republican coalition as any other Republican group.
Deal with it.
What's funny is that I used to love mayonaise sandwiches when I was a kid. I preferred spaghetti sauce to ketchup, though.
With Republicans like Chaffee, who needs Democrats?
Log Cabin Republicans love mayo sandwiches too.
What are you going to do when the Tax and Spend Republican Club is formed? What about the Gun Ban Republican Club? or the Islamic Jihad Republican Club? or the Cindy Sheehan Republican Club? What exactly constitutes "part of the Republican coalition"? Everyone who hangs the name "Republican" on their group? Or just people who's views you agree with, like the sodomites?
"What are you going to do when the Tax and Spend Republican Club is formed?'
The club has already been formed and they are in control of the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
But he spews the same old liberal BS here.
Easy to say it is BS, harder to prove. The rich can still escape into bankruptcy, considerably harder for the little folks, thanks to GW.
Well said.
Well he is from Rhode Island, what were you expecting, Jesse Helms perhaps?
The LCR made a few cell groups and now call themselves a coalition. They refer to 'us' as the Conservative parties as if we are not part of their 'coalition' any more.
Sounds like Laffey better represents the Republican wing of the Republican party! The last of the Republican Liberals? Hah! There are still plenty of those such as Snowe, Spectre, Collins, etc. Hopefully Chaffee's defeat will keep them on their toes. It will also hopefully make the RNC think twice before supporting someone who'se resemblence to a Republican is only in the initial next to his name.
Deal with it.
Perhaps, but this is ostensibly a "Conservative" as opposed to a "Republican" (or for that matter "Libertarian" website).
You don't seem to be able to deal with that at all!
When should we expect MSNBC to have an article, The Last of the Conservative Democrats?
That's not mayonaise.
A mayonaise sandwich with a slice of velveeta was a special treat. Not as good as a fried spam sandwich. Thank God we didn't know how bad we were for ourselves.
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